Steven Winn

The English tenor lent his voice to dark material at a performance of “The Music and Poetry of the Great War.”

Donizetti's buoyant comedy was transposed to 1950s America in Jose Maria Condemi's staging for Conservatory Opera Theatre.

It takes an orchestra as good as Philharmonia Baroque and a soloist like Rachel Podger to showcase Vivaldi’s protean imagination.

The mezzo soprano's recital in San Francisco with pianist Julius Drake offered rich payoffs in the middle of the program, oddities at the beginning and end.

A season-long survey of Robert Schumann's symphonies, with recordings, is the next big project, as the Symphony announced its coming season.

Mezzo Susan Graham was inspiring in an afternoon of art songs about romantic love.

The small company comes up trumps with a compelling production of the modern-day masterpiece.

The Palo Alto-based company offers up a mostly pleasing, musically erratic Abduction from the Seraglio

Powerful American tenor Matthew Polenzani knocked a delightfully eccentric program out of the (First Congregational) Church in Berkeley Saturday night.

Anne Sofie von Otter is a great performer you root for. But her recital with pianist Angela Hewitt was not all gold, despite that.